18-Wheeler Wipes Out Pickup Truck, Noodle Stand: 1 Dead, 6 Injured

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18-wheeler wipes out pickup truck, noodle stand: 1 dead, 6 injured

Phuket Gazette

Phuket Kusoldharm Foundation workers needed one hour using metal cutters to free family matriarch Rerm Maneesri, 74, from the twisted wreckage. Photo: Thawit Bilabdullar

The Phuket-registered 18-wheeled rig slammed into a power pole before finally coming to rest by the roadside. Photo: Thawit Bilabdullar

PHUKET: -- Thalang Police are searching for the driver of an 18-wheel truck and trailer that slammed into a pickup, plowing the vehicle into a roadside noodle stand in Phuket last night.

The driver of the rig fled the scene, where one person was killed and six more injured.

Thalang Police were notified of the accident, on Thepkrasattri Road northbound near the PTT gas station in Srisoonthorn, at 7pm.

Arriving at the scene with Phuket Kusoldharm Foundation rescue workers, police found a badly-damaged Mazda pickup truck slammed into the front of a roadside noodle shop.

Two damaged motorbikes and an unoccupied 18-wheel flatbed truck-and-trailer rig that is presumed to have caused the multi-vehicle collision were nearby.

One customer at the restaurant, 50-year-old Daruwan Tantirangsimaphan, was killed instantly from massive head trauma. Mrs Daruwan, a local resident, was an assistant nurse at Vachira Phuket Hospital in Phuket Town.

Five of the six other victims were rushed to Thalang Hospital for emergency treatment.

Most of the injured were members of the Maneesri family, all local residents of the same home in Srisoonthorn. They were traveling in the family pickup at the time of the accident.

The were listed as: Peerapong Maneesri (the driver), 40; Phalot Maneesri, 11; Sasima Maneesri, 37; Phalothon Maneesri, 6; and Rerm Maneesri, 74.

It took rescue workers about one hour using “jaws of life” metal cutters to free Mrs Rerm from the cab of the vehicle, after which time she was also rushed to hospital for treatment.

A sixth injured person, 12-year-old Chaiyanon Kiantireuangrit, was also a customer at the restaurant at the time of the accident. He is listed as a resident of the Phuket Villa 1 housing estate in Phuket Town.

The driver of the Phuket-registered rig was nowhere to be found when police arrived. The cab of the unladen rig was not clearly marked with a company name, rescue workers said.

As of this morning, Thalang Police were still searching for the man, the Phuket Gazette has confirmed.

The survivors will be questioned once they have sufficiently recovered, police said.

Source: http://www.phuketgaz...ticle16612.html

-- Phuket Gazette 2012-08-08

[BookMan]

Very sad.

The driver fled the scene...again.

[laurentbkk]

As the truck is there I guess its easy to find who owns it no ? that's what the plate number are for ? so find the owner who will tell who was the driver .... Why those killers never want to face responsibilities ? how many more killed you want on your roads ..that's what the government has to answer , otherwise it will continue as a total anarchy.

[fiddlehead]

I was coming through there the other night (late) and just getting going when the light turned green.

All of a sudden a double (empty) truck came flying by me in the right lane which is just a turning lane and ends at the light.

He had to time it perfectly to swerve around me and back into the lane I was in before the curb would flip him.

He did it and it scared the crap out of me.

I could have very easily found myself in the same shoes as this driver who was killed had he timed it a half-second or so wrong.

Someday the police will wake up and start pulling these killers over. (yeah right!)

RIP

[carvets]

As the truck is there I guess its easy to find who owns it no ? that's what the plate number are for ? so find the owner who will tell who was the driver .... Why those killers never want to face responsibilities ? how many more killed you want on your roads ..that's what the government has to answer , otherwise it will continue as a total anarchy.

Im guessing one of the reasons they flee is because local Thai justice , civilians taking matters into their own hands , can be more dangerous to their health than the notion of spending time in the monkey house. Ive seen it with my own eyes , 20 thais trying to break into a car while the occupant who had just hit a girl on a bike was praying the police would arrive. Luckily for him they did and managed to rescue him from the mob......thats just one possibility.

[SuneeTH]

I am soory.

However, seeing these roadside store, it is an accident waiting to happen.

[chiang mai]

Very sad.

The driver fled the scene...again.

All sensible drivers flee the scene of accidents in Thailand and turn themselves in later at a police station, to do otherwise runs the serious risk of being kiiled or maimed at the scene by an angry mob.

[carvets]

.... Why those killers never want to face responsibilities ? how many more killed you want on your roads ..that's what the government has to answer , otherwise it will continue as a total anarchy.

Sometimes it may be the total anarchy of a raging Thai mob that has some of these guys flee. Ive seen it first hand,....20 Thais trying to get at the driver ,who had barricaded himself inside his vehicle after he had hit a girl on a bike. Luckily for him the police arrived .

[pacovl46]

As the truck is there I guess its easy to find who owns it no ? that's what the plate number are for ? so find the owner who will tell who was the driver .... Why those killers never want to face responsibilities ? how many more killed you want on your roads ..that's what the government has to answer , otherwise it will continue as a total anarchy.

Im guessing one of the reasons they flee is because local Thai justice , civilians taking matters into their own hands , can be more dangerous to their health than the notion of spending time in the monkey house. Ive seen it with my own eyes , 20 thais trying to break into a car while the occupant who had just hit a girl on a bike was praying the police would arrive. Luckily for him they did and managed to rescue him from the mob......thats just one possibility.

Or he was high or drunk or doesn't have a driver's license etc...

[FM505]

I am soory.

However, seeing these roadside store, it is an accident waiting to happen.

So true... it is remarkable in my view that roadside 'businesses' camped so close to traffic are not more often caught in similar situations.

[belg]

why not make a law: if you flee the scene, you get life scentence in jail mantadory...

[stevenl]

why not make a law: if you flee the scene, you get life scentence in jail mantadory...

Nice choice: life sentence or lose life by an angry mob.

[Udox]

As the truck is there I guess its easy to find who owns it no ? that's what the plate number are for ? so find the owner who will tell who was the driver .... Why those killers never want to face responsibilities ? how many more killed you want on your roads ..that's what the government has to answer , otherwise it will continue as a total anarchy.

The number plate merely shows where the vehicle was originally / last registered and is not an up-to-date- record of the address of the current vehicle owner

How do I know? I went to my local Licencing office to inform them of my arrival in the province and requested they update my details in the vehicle log book accordingly.

I even got the 'proof of address' form signed up from the local immigration office.

They refused to (simply) update my address and told me I must go back to the province the vehicle was originally registered at and change it there. At the time - that would entail a round trip of over 2000km.

I asked what if I didn't do it and kept it with my old outdated address? They told me 'mai pen rai' - most people don't change it anyway and gave me a frown as if to say "next?"

If My vehicle is involved in an accident - the police will no doubt be knocking on someones door who have no idea who I am or indeed where I am.

The age of computers is truly upon us - but alas not in the vehicle licencing offices - apparently

[Tanaka]

why not make a law: if you flee the scene, you get life scentence in jail mantadory...

Nice choice: life sentence or lose life by an angry mob.

There may be a third choice. Drive sensibly and with you brain engaged

[chiang mai]

why not make a law: if you flee the scene, you get life scentence in jail mantadory...

Nice choice: life sentence or lose life by an angry mob.

There may be a third choice. Drive sensibly and with you brain engaged

And don't make a mistake, right?